From December 4th to 5th, 2018, The 13th Confucius Institute Conference was held at New International Convention and Exhibition Center of Century City Hotel, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. More than 1500 delegates from 154 countries participated in the conference. Thandwa Zizwe Mthembu, Vice Chancellor of DUT, Sibusiso Moyo, Vice President of DUT, and Wu Lin, Chinese Director of CI from FAFU, attended the conference.

On the award ceremony of the 13th Confucius Institute Conference, the Vice Minister of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China Tian Xuejun presented awards to Thandwa Zizwe Mthembu

Thandwa Zizwe Mthembu, Vice Chancellor of DUT and Sibusiso Moyo, Vice President of DUT took a group photo

Among 41 awardees, Thandwa Zizwe Mthembu was presented Confucius Institute Individual Performance Excellence Award by Tian Xuejun, Chinese vice-Minister of Education. Thandwa Zizwe Mthembu was the third member of the board of FAFU’s CI at DUT to win this honor in the history, and it was also another great honor after FAFU’s CI at DUT was awarded as “Confucius Institute of the Year 2017”.